. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. CHEIROPTERA. 595 reasons hold good, in the present case, in an equal, if not a superior degree. The distinctions by which the present order is separated from all others are so marked, and the general similarity in the organization of its component groups is so striking, as greatly to facilitate and shorten the necessary detail of the organization. There appears to be a great and obvious objection to the usual location of the remark- able genus Galeopithecus amongst the Cheiro- ptera ; there are so many important parts of
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. CHEIROPTERA. 595 reasons hold good, in the present case, in an equal, if not a superior degree. The distinctions by which the present order is separated from all others are so marked, and the general similarity in the organization of its component groups is so striking, as greatly to facilitate and shorten the necessary detail of the organization. There appears to be a great and obvious objection to the usual location of the remark- able genus Galeopithecus amongst the Cheiro- ptera ; there are so many important parts of its organization in which it clearly resembles the more insectivorous forms of the Quadru- mana, not only in the peculiarities of its osteology, but in many other not less essential points, that I have preferred following the change suggested by Blainville, and subse- quently adopted by Temminck, to the arrange- ment of Cuvier and of most other zoologists. It may undoubtedly be considered as an oscu- lent form, leading from the Quadrumanous order, by the Makis, &c. to the present group; but it cannot but be acknowledged by any one who has attentively marked its anatomical structure, that the affinity of this genus to the Quadrumana is more intimate than that by which it approaches the Bats; though perhaps it would be going too far to say, with Temminck, that it bears the same relation to the Quadrumana as Petaurista to the Mar- supiata, or Pteromys to the Rodentia. The latter genera are not even on the confines of their respective orders, nor do they offer any important aberration from the typical struc- ture; but in the present case there are several characters which indicate an interesting ap- proach towards the order from which it has very properly been removed. Omitting, then, the genus Galeopithecus, the Cheiroptera form, without perhaps a single exception, the most distinctly circumscribed and natural group to be found in the whole class of the Mannniferu. The chara
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